About Me

Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata in her very own words had said about Mr Bhutoria ---
“He is a boy with a different vision altogether”. ---
Sundeep Bhutoria is a man with a mission – to make meaningful contribution to the betterment of society and to promote Indian art and culture at home and abroad.
Born in Churu in the Shekhawati region of India’s desert state of Rajasthan, Sundeep is very well known in the social, literary, diplomatic and the political circles in India.
A globetrotter, Mr Bhutoria straddles across worlds and wears many caps – a popular youth icon, tireless social worker and activist, ardent admirer of Indian art and culture, a successful businessman - he is engaged in many UNA projects holding key positions. He is closely associated with many social welfare organisations and trusts.
He loves to read,writes columns in dailies, plays the violin and enjoys playing golf and watching polo. He lives in Kolkata (India) with his wife Manjari but divides his time between Rajasthan, Delhi and London each year.
In a short time he has achieved many milestones and recognitions.

Friday, August 8, 2014

8
August, 2014, Jaipur: I landed
in
Jaipur in the morning and checked in
at theITC
Rajputana.
Today
and tomorrow, in
all, I shall be
involved in five
events or get-togethers in my various capacity.

At the Ladies Study Group event

Also, there is an
oath taking
ceremony at 4 pm today at the
Rajasthan Raj
Bhawan
for Shri
Ram
Naik,
the
Governor of Uttar Pradesh,who
will take additional charge as the Governor of Rajasthan
as
well.

I
spent lot of time in hotels around the world and day before
yesterday,
during the rapid question and answer round at the Ladies'
Study Group
event at the ITC Sonar, Kolkata,
Ratan Tata was asked - Which is your favourite hotel?

He
kept quiet for a moment and then said, “It
is unfair for me to answer this question as The
Taj
has never allowed me to stay in any other group property. However,
as far as the different
hotels of the Taj
Groupwere
concerned,
I say The
Taj Bengal is
my favourite.”

The audience (pic) broke into rapturous applause at Mr
Tata's compliment to a hotel based in our city.

I
myself have been a regular at The
Taj Bengal
since its inception. Being a member of The
Chambers,
I do use it frequently, but my personal use of Taj
Group of
hotels was
much higher in other cities than Kolkata. In fact, for years, Taj
was my home in Jaipur.Since
the last three or four years almost 99 per cent of my events,
functions and parties etc., in Kolkata have all been held in Taj
Bengal.
Earlier, there was a time when, for a number of years, ITC
Sonar
was home to my events and parties. That is from my smallest one-table
dinner to the biggest parties and events took place there. I remember
one event of mine some five years ago had a footfall of nearly 6000
and was held at the hotel's the then Sunderbans
banquet. At
that time
Ranveer Bhandari was the general manager.During
the past three or four years, there have been instances when I had
events in Taj
Bengal
and
few of the guests happened to reach ITC
Sonar thinking
that since I was the host it had to be theITC
Hotel.
Roopa Ganguly was one of them who once, based
on such presumption,
landed up at the ITC
Sonar
for a The
Bengalevent
which
was actually
being held at The
Taj.Now
the situation has reversed. I haven't hosted any function or party at
the ITC
Sonar,
except one for Amit Choudhuri and another Agra
Chaat
event, in the last four years.I
think Mr Ratan Tata’s compliment is well deserved by Taj
Bengal.
I myself vouch for the food and the high quality of personalised
services, something which has consistently
moved up the curve in
this property. On the other hand, now in Jaipur, ITC
Rajputana has
been my home for the last three years.For
the last four months I have been observing that the quality of
service at the ITC
Sonar in
Kolkata has
improved a
lot and so
has the quality of food. I
am glad that this is
creating a healthy competition
in the city.In fact, it will be interesting to watch
the Taj Group as a veteran like Rajesh Sarna has become the
chief executive officer (CEO) of Taj Hotels especially
at a time when The Taj is incurring a oss in their
international properties, USA in particular.I did meet Mr Sarna at a social
get-together and I have deep respect for his talents, his minor
observations and eye for the details as far as hotels are concerned,
something which the Hyatt has evidently gained from.ess
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